Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERA yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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All good things must come to an end.
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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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